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Do Now:
• Grab a colored folder from the back and place the handouts inside of it into the folder’s brads
Tone and mood
OBJECTIVES: What is Tone? What is Mood?
How are Tone and Mood EffecHve in WriHng?
WHAT IS MOOD?
• Mood is the general atmosphere created by the author’s words. – It is the feeling the reader gets from reading those words.
– It may be the same, or it may change from situa;on to situa;on.
Words That Describe Mood
Fanciful Melancholy Frightening Mysterious
Frustra;ng Roman;c Gloomy Sen;mental Happy Sorrowful Joyful
Suspenseful
What is the Mood?
• In the next slides, try to guess the mood that the image creates.
MOOD/Frightening
MOOD/Fun
MOOD/Happy
MOOD/Frustrated
MOOD/ROMANTIC
MOOD/Melancholy
Tone and Mood Watch out! Tone and mood are similar! • Tone is the author’s aEtude toward the wri;ng (his characters, the situa;on) and the readers. – A work of wri;ng can have more than one tone. – An example of tone could be both serious and humorous.
– Tone is set by the seEng, choice of vocabulary and other details.
Words That Describe Tone
• Amused Cheerful Serious • Humorous Ironic Formal • Pessimis;c Pompous Resigned • Angry Horror Suspicious • Informal Light Gloomy • Playful Sad WiPy
Tone? Mood?
• Bouncing through the door, Alara lit up the room with a joyous glow on her face as she told her parents of her exam scores.
Tone? Mood?
• Bouncing through the door, Alara lit up the room with a joyous glow on her face as she told her parents of her exam scores.
Tone? Mood?
• She huddled in the corner, clutching her taTered blanket and shaking convulsively, as she feverishly searched the room for the unknown dangers that awaited her.
Tone? Mood?
• She huddled in the corner, clutching her taTered blanket and shaking convulsively, as she feverishly searched the room for the unknown dangers that awaited her.
Tone? Mood?
• Gently smiling, the mother tenderly tucked the covers up around the child’s neck, and carefully, quietly, leV the room making sure to leave a comforHng ray of light shining through the opened door should the child wake.
Tone? Mood?
• Gently smiling, the mother tenderly tucked the covers up around the child’s neck, and carefully, quietly, leV the room making sure to leave a comforHng ray of light shining through the opened door should the child wake.